Nigel Farage's Quotes

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.